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Walking: (Henry David Thoreau Classics Collection)
Henry David Thoreau
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Walking: (Henry David Thoreau Classics Collection)
Henry David Thoreau
Publisher Marketing: I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks-who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.
Medie | Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg) |
Udgivet | 21. oktober 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9781502930064 |
Forlag | Createspace |
Genre | Topical > Ecology |
Antal sider | 38 |
Mål | 152 × 229 × 2 mm · 63 g |
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